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Show NEWS SVMMARY Tho llrltlsh jKirtlon, $G5,G0G,00O, of tho Ilusslan loan hns been covered. Agrarian troubles havo commenced at Nizhni Novgorod, Russln, and troops havo been summoned. A Ilolglan trading ship foundered off Prnwlo point, near Dover, Eng-Innd. Eng-Innd. Her captain and 33 men were drowned. Tnylor Flick, populist candldnte for governor In 1000, and a Nebraska pioneer, pion-eer, Is dead at Hroken Row, Nebraska, nged 73 years. Ono hundred armed men drovo tho working men from tho Plnednlo wash-cry wash-cry at Tamaquotn, Pn. Protection has been requested. A dispatch from Poit Said to tho London Dally Mall reports that Turkish Tur-kish troops havo occupied El Arlsh, on tho Egyptlnn-Syrlan frontier. Speaker Cannon haznrded a guess last week that congress would 'ad-ourn 'ad-ourn somo tlmo "between tho mlddlo ot Juno nnd tho first or August." Will Ilrown, a negro, wns lynched by citizens, who hnnged him to a railroad rail-road trestle for killing W. J. Johnson, a railroad contractor of Corinth, Miss. Tho now lonn hns been so largely oversubscribed In HiiBsIa that sul-Rcrlbcrs sul-Rcrlbcrs havo been notified that they will receive only ono of twenty shares subscribed. Tho Hoynl Insurance company of Liverpool hns learned by cable from its San Francisco mnnager that tho catastropho Involves tho company In a posslblo liability or $0,750,000. At Czenstocbown, In Itusslnn Poland, Po-land, a bomb was thrown nt the car-rlago car-rlago or tho cbler or pollco when ho was returning from a runornl. Tho missile exploded, killing a policeman. Tho nnnunl meting of tho Imperial council of tho Mystic Shrlnors which wbr to havo been held In Los Angeles Mny 7 to 14, has been Indefinitely postponed on ncocunt of tho calamity In San Frnnclsco. Religious frenzy chnrnctcrlzcd tho fighting nt I-cs Nosbles on April 22, between Catholics and Motrlavlts. when ton persons wore killed nnd scvent-sovon wero wounded. Four priests wero terribly mutilated. The Nclson-Hercra fistic battlo has been postponed until May 2G by consent con-sent of all parties concerned. This notion wns taken on tho presumption that tho Shrlnor mooting nnd tho Fiesta would not bo held nt Los Angeles. An-geles. Governor Pnrdco has announced that ho will call a special session ot tho legislature for tho purpose of taking tak-ing action on tho San Francisco situation. sit-uation. Tho dnto tor tho session will not bo sot until tho excitement has subsided. i A great scandal has been cajtscd In St. Petersburg, by tho prcmaturo publication pub-lication or tho draft of tho now "fundamental "fun-damental laws," or constitution ol Itussla. Tho emperor has ordered an Investigation to determine how tho newB leaked out. Tho sennto committee voted a fa-vorablo fa-vorablo report on nonjamln D. nnrnos for postmnster at Washington, D. C. A motion to Investigate protests against Mr. names was circulated, tho Democrats voting for It nnd the Republicans against It. Tho Democratic congressional campaign cam-paign committee will mnlntnlh branch headquarters at Chicago, with Congressman Con-gressman Lloyd of Missouri In chnrgo, during tho .appmacjifng congressional campaign.- Tho prlhcjpal office will bo In Washington as"tVthTal. t . A serious outbreak ofMfiq plagua has occurred nt Jammu, ln'kn'shmlr, northern India. Thoro havo been mnny victims among tho members ol tho Imperial sorvlco troops. Two hundred and olghty-flvo deaths occurred occur-red during tho pnst week. ltev. W. S. Matthow, presiding elder of tho Methodist churches of California, Califor-nia, 6ays tho estimated losses of tho Methodist churches In San Francisco Is iGQO.000. Ho declares that the work of rebuilding will commence as soon as tho tunds arc collected. A telcgrnm received rrom Krasnoy-arck, Krasnoy-arck, Eastern Slberln, reporto that two-thirds ot tho city or Yonlsolsk has been flooded by tho rising of tho Yenisei Yen-isei river. Tho people havo taken refuge ref-uge on tho roofs of tholr homes. Hundreds Hun-dreds or houses havo been damaged. A- map Just published at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, or tho burnt district shows an area covernlng 453 city blocks, ill ot which nre south or Market streot and 342 nt tho north ond. It Is estimated esti-mated that tho buildings destroyod will he In tho neighborhood of 00,000. Tho first box of California cherries received this season was auctioned at Now York City, ono cherry at a time, for tho benefit of tho earth-quake earth-quake sufforers and brought $2,440. About 500 berry commission mop chants and others nttoudod tho salo. Final agreement wns reached last week between tho oporators and miners min-ers of tho Pittsburg district on wages and conditions to rulo In that district for tho next two years. While tho agreement Is based on tho 1903 wage scalo, tho minors secured several concessions. |
